Support for valve-housings.



0. H. & A. 'F. PIEPER.

SUPPORT FOR VALVE HOUSINGS. APPLICATION mm ocr. .3o. |915.

1,230,214. Panted June 19, 1917'.

6L' ATTORNEYS.

iiNiTEn sTATEs PATENT oEEicE.

oscAR H. PIEPER AND ALPHONSE E. PIEPER, o E ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

SUPPORT FOR VALVE-HOUSIN GS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 19, 1917.

Application iled October 30, 191.5. Serial N o. 58,941.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that we, OSCAR H. PIEPER and ALPHONSE F. PIEPER, both of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Supports for Valve-I-Iousings; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and to the reference-numerals marked thereon.

The present invention has to do with supports or mountings for valve housings and the like, adapted for maintaining a controlling valve for a fluid line, such as used for instance in connection with dental surgical apparatus, against a wall or other foundation, and the primary object of the structure constituting the present improvement resides in so designing and arranging the parts as to hold a housing or other member rigidly, and to effectively obviate its slightest movement. A further purpose of the invention is to afford an extremely simple and comparatively inexpensive construction, characterized by its efficiency as to strength, and further by the readiness with which it can be operatively applied to a housing or similar portion. To these and other ends the invention consists in certain improvements and combinations of parts, all as will be hereinafter more fully described, the novel features being pointed out in the claims at the end of the specification.

In the drawings:

Figure l is a plan view showing the application of a preferred embodiment of the invention to a valve housing;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation;

Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on the line Jia-3a of Fig. 2, and

Fig. 4 is a sectional View taken on line Aa-la of Fig. 1.

Similar reference numerals in the Several figures indicate the same parts.

In the structure f shown, the supporting means embodies a pedestal l having a hollow portion 2 provided with a base iiange 3 by which it can be attached to a wall or other support upon which the valve housing is to be mounted. Surmounting the hollow portion 2 is a base portion 4 and an offset portion 5 which is connected with the base portion by a curved surface 6 for a purpose that will appear more clearly presently. The base and offset'portions A' and 5 are both'provided lwith openings to receive Screws 7 which pass affording a socket into which the housing can be snugly fitted. The attaching screws 7 engage the housing at independent points arranged at intervals lengthwise of the supporting surface 6, and disposed at approximately an angle of forty-five degrees from each other with reference to the housing. As a result of this arrangement, the attaching devices act in conjunction with each other, to bind the housing by tension exerted along lines which are angularly disposed with relation to one another, resulting in locking the housing in a most rigid and secure manner.

The structure that has been described is a most simple one, which can be manufactured -at a low cost while having the important advantages of permitting ready application of a housing and insuring its being held in absolutely fixed relation.

We claim as our invention:

l. The combination with a cylindrical valve housing, of supporting means therefor comprising a base portion and an offset portion projecting beyond the base portion and connected therewith by a curved surface for engaging the housing, and securing devices adapted to pass through the base and offset portions for engaging the housing at independent points.

2. The combination with a cylindrical valve housing, of supporting means therefor comprising a base portion and an offset portion projecting beyond the baseportion and connected therewith by a curved surface for engaging the housing, and screws passing through the base and offset portions and arranged substantially at right angles to each other for engaging the housing at independent points.

3. The combination with a cylindrical valve housing, of supporting means therefor comprising a pedestal having a hollow portion sui-mounted by a base und oiset *porn receive a screw for engaging the housing tion pro]eot1ng beyond the base, and con- 1n spaced and angular relation to the first l) neoted therewith by a curved surface for enmentioned screw.

gaging the housing, the base having an open- OSCAR H. PIEPER.

ing communicating with said hollow por- ALPHONSE F. PIEPER. tion through which :L screw may be inserted W'itnesses:

into the opening to engage the housing, and V. R. HUMPHREYS,

the offset portion also having an opening tok J. H. KLINE...

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